meterman opened this issue on Feb 29, 2008 · 94 posts
lkendall posted Fri, 29 February 2008 at 8:17 PM
2/29/08
I'm fairly sure that the bit bottle-neck on my computer is the memory and the motherboard. The Processor is a Pentium D 2.8 GHz, which is EM64T capable. According to my research that means that it is a 64 bit processor.
The mother board is an Intel board, and can only address 4 GB. I read a message from a technician that said these boards made compromises on design that made the second pair of chips actually slow the system down, regardless of the quality or speed of the memory sticks.
If Poser 7 Pro (Basic) will indeed allow for speading renders over a network. It would be smarter to get a seperate QUAD core computer, but be able to use the one I already have on the network for a several system renderfarm.
I feel that XP Pro would be more stable than Multimedia, and might let me use the /3GB switch to access more than 2 GB per program.
I have ATX cases coming out of my ears, and a 600 watt powersupply waiting for a MB. I have not seen a good bundle of MB, processor, and memory that together with a new HD and OS would come in at less than $550 dollars. XP Pro and XP Pro 64 cost $140.
LMK
Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.